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When Liu Ye explained the situation to the leaders of the water thieves who stayed behind, and explained the benefits and disadvantages of the disaster, everyone kowtowed to welcome Liu Ye.

Only the leader of the water thieves was unruly and shouted at Liu Ye: "Liu Gongzi, why did Yuan Shu's assassin appear so coincidentally, could it be that Wei Yan ordered someone to pretend to be Yuan Shu's assassin in order to annex our Chaohu Water Army, pretending to assassinate Wei Yan, but actually assassinating General Zheng and other leaders!" ”

Liu Ye laughed angrily: "My lord has always been thirsty for talents, recruiting talents, after General Zheng arrived in Hefei City, my lord personally gave the golden helmet and armor to General Zheng, and promised to ask for General Zheng to be crowned Jiujiang Taishou, Chief Liu was also at the scene at the time, he could see clearly, Yuan Shu sent the former world's number one swordsman Wang Yue, that is, Wang Yue assassinated General Zheng with a sword, and then went to assassinate my lord, and my lord fought with him twice......"

Liu Shui, the surviving leader of the water thieves, said: "What Liu Gongzi said is extremely true, Liu can see it clearly, it is indeed an assassin sent by Yuan Shu to assassinate General Zheng and the leaders, Nangong cherishes fate, you have to make trouble!" ”

Nangong originated from the ancient Western Zhou Dynasty and is an ancient Han compound surname. Nangong Shi, known as one of the eight scholars of the Western Zhou Dynasty, was known as Nangongzi at the time, and later appeared in the novel "Romance of the Gods". Another branch of the Spring and Autumn Period, the prince of the Lu State Clan, Meng Xizi, had a son named Zhongsun Min, who lived in Nangong, and his descendants took Nangong, where he lived, as his surname, called Nangong. There is also a person named Que in the Spring and Autumn Period of the Lu State Clan, because he has been living in Nangong, so he took "Nangong" as his surname, called Nangong Que, and his descendants took Nangong as his surname.

This Nangong Xiyuan didn't know which one left behind, because he committed a crime, according to the rules of this era, his name was forcibly changed to two words, and later he became a water thief.

Nangong Xiyuan's biggest hobby in his life is Longyang, in the future, he likes to pick up soap, among the water thieves, there are more men and fewer women, he picks up more soap, and he also gathers a group of people who like his backyard, among the nine water thieves, the power ranks second and second-to-last, only a little more than Liushui, but there are more than 1,000 people.

Nangong Xiyuan originally planned to take refuge in Yuan Shu, he had just made a good deal of Yuan Shu's long history Yang Hong, Yang Hong promised to give him an officer of the naval academy, but he didn't expect that Wei Yan's army was like a bamboo, annihilating all the Yuan Shu naval army rampant on the Huai River, and taking Shouchun City with lightning speed, Yuan Shu fled in embarrassment, and Nangong Xiyuan's dream of being a naval captain was shattered.

If you are a normal person, when you encounter this situation, you will not hesitate to choose to surrender to Wei Yan, but Nangong Xiyuan hates Wei Yan for making him spend useless work before, so he hates Wei Yan deeply, not only did he not follow Zheng Bao and others to meet Wei Yan, but now he has come to sabotage Liu Ye to recruit water thieves.

After the rumors created by Nangong Xiyuan were refuted by Liu Shui, he still refused to give up, shouting: "Maybe you were bought by Wei Yan, spoke for him, and came to harm our Chaohu rebel brothers!" ”

Liu Shui was furious and roared: "General Pingnan has more than 100,000 horses under his command, attacking all of them, invincible, everywhere he goes, Yuan Shu rats are scurrying, such a big force, I let my brothers follow, how can it be regarded as a trap for everyone!" Nangong Xiyuan, you are a Longyang rat, talking nonsense here, isn't it because General Pingnan went south to defeat Yuan Shu, so that you can't be a naval captain under Yuan Shu? You just spread rumors like this, brothers, don't listen to the nonsense of this Longyang rat! ”

Liu Ye talked about the various benefits of joining the Wei army.

When I heard that after joining the Wei army, not only would I be well fed and clothed, but I would also have the opportunity to become a general, and those with outstanding military achievements would also be able to enter the pink camp to enjoy beautiful women, and they would also provide daughters-in-law and distribute land, all of them were moved.

Only Nangong Xiyuan and his Longyang Army are not very cold, they don't like the setting of the red powder camp and don't like to provide daughter-in-law's benefits.

Now the situation is clear, among the more than 20,000 Chaohu water thieves, only Nangong Xiyuan's more than 1,000 water thieves are stubborn.

Liu Ye announced at the time: "Anyone who castrates the water thieves under the command of Nangong can join the regular army!" ”

The remaining 20,000 Chaohu water thieves have already understood before, most of them can only be incorporated into the garrison army for the time being, and only a very small number of elites can be selected into the regular army, and those who enter the regular army can enjoy various benefits that are far higher than those of other princes.

As a result, 20,000 Chaohu thieves rushed to Nangong Xiyuan's more than 1,000 people like crazy.

They didn't kill Nangong Xiyuan's gang, but captured them and castrated them.

The reason why they were castrated and not killed was very simple, Wei Yan always thought that it was too cheap to kill the enemy directly with a knife, and the most ruthless and effective way to treat the enemy was to demote them to slavery and let them be slaves for generations, but Wei Yan didn't want to engage in slavery, so a compromise was to castrate those enemies and let them drag their broken bodies to mine until they died of exhaustion and illness, which was more effective than a direct knife.

Because of Wei Yan's instructions, the generals of the Wei army in the future will all use that method in the face of those stubborn enemies!

Nangong Xiyuan saw that something was wrong, so he wanted to rely on his superb swimming skills to escape, but in the water, he met a big man holding a double halberd and wearing a bag, and in one round, he was subdued and then castrated.

Gan Ning smiled and said, "Since you don't need to keep this thing, it's better to castrate it and feed it to the dog!" ”

After Nangong Xiyuan's more than 1,000 people were castrated, the other water thieves with strange ideas were all shocked!

Liu Ye appeased a little, and all the 20,000 water thieves were attached.

With this 10,000 water army, Wei Yan controlled Chaohu Lake, and he could curb Sun Wu's forces from going north.

Chaohu south can intercept the Yangtze River, control the "Huai right throat" Hefei in the north, form a horn with Dabie Mountain on the left, and threaten the ancient capital Nanjing on the right, so the military status of Chaohu Lake has always been "a place where things in the world must be contested".

The Chaohu Lake water system extends the whole of central Anhui, forming a water network in Anhui, connecting the Huai River on the top, down to the Yangtze River, occupying Chaohu Lake, posing a threat to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Chaohu Lake has an entrance to the Yangtze River - Yuxi Estuary, "is choking in it, the east and west passes and thus auxiliary wings", "although there are 100,000 divisions, failed to Kou Dajiang", Cao Wei's majestic journey, galloping north invincible, but because of Chaohu Lake and finally can not cross the river. Hefei Chaohu Lake risk, to pass, from the north and south of the Yangtze River into the Jianghuai, must first pass through Chaohu Lake and can go north, Sun Wu is therefore "six around Hefei can not be".

Although Chaohu Lake does not directly lead to the Yangtze River, as far as the Yangtze River is concerned, it is close to the rear of the front line, the water area is wide, there are islands in the lake, it is an excellent place for the naval army to gather and train, and the river basin is a natural granary, all of which provide good conditions for the establishment of military bases, so the later Southern Liang Xunlang and Zhang Xianzhong in the late Ming Dynasty have used the lake as a military base.

Gan Ning mixed 20,000 water thieves, selected 10,000 people, and trained the water army on Chaohu Lake.

The other 10,000 people went to Shouchun and moved to Tuntian, Huaibei.

The 500 people originally commanded by Gan Ning were placed among these 10,000 people as grassroots officers, and they completely controlled this naval army.

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Wei Yan had no other idea now, but to march quickly to rescue Yiyang New Town and prevent Yiyang New Town from falling into Cao Cao's hands.